mdocod
Flashaholic
So... it's saturday night, (technically, it's sunday morning but lets not go there...)...
I've had enough alcohol to loosen up the "give-a-crap" nerve. The fact that my wife isn't here (house-sitting for some family friends) may be also playing a role...
Whatever the cause, I was outside pointing my M6 around and I just had an impulse of "test this SOB..., push it, see what happens"
We are on a gravel road with a gravel earth for a driveway and most surrounding areas. I figure, what the heck, I'm not selling this thing I'm in love, if I don't put some marks on it, how the heck am I going to know it's mine...
So I start flicking the thing at the ground (turned on of course.) Still lit and nothing eventful happening I start tossing the thing with some more distance involved. It keeps landing, lit up, working fine. I tossed the thing around in a semi-mild manner at distances in an arced toss of ~10-15 ft at least a half dozen times. I kept picking it up and observing the body of the light, looking for damage, only very minor nicks hardly noticeable. I thought I saw one hefty mark, then used my fingernail to slide that piece of rock from out-between a pair of the raised "ribs" on the turbo-head (this is mostly granite out here on the surface FYI). So at this point, I have almost no noticeable damage, a few minor nicks here and there.... I decide I need to try a little harder. ....
I step out into the "driveway" where the gravel is packed hard from cars driving over it. I lob this thing straight up in the air at least 30+ft and let it come crashing down.....
lands with a solid thud, the body and the head meet the ground at the same time...
. the light goes out...
Damage assessment time... what failed?
I took the light inside to figure out what actually happened. I figured the bulb filament popped. Nope...
*story interruption: configuration data incoming*
I'm running a pair of Emoli 18650s charged to ~4.0V each driving a 64250 for this test in an FM bi-pin to MN adapter.
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The bulb broke off at the pins. The FM adapter, the battery adapter, the batteries, and the flashlight, are all in perfect working order. I dropped a different bulb in the adapter and everything works fine.
Not bad. I can stop babying this thing now...
-Eric
[edit in]
Here's some picts:
How'd that cucumber get in here?
I've had enough alcohol to loosen up the "give-a-crap" nerve. The fact that my wife isn't here (house-sitting for some family friends) may be also playing a role...
Whatever the cause, I was outside pointing my M6 around and I just had an impulse of "test this SOB..., push it, see what happens"
We are on a gravel road with a gravel earth for a driveway and most surrounding areas. I figure, what the heck, I'm not selling this thing I'm in love, if I don't put some marks on it, how the heck am I going to know it's mine...
So I start flicking the thing at the ground (turned on of course.) Still lit and nothing eventful happening I start tossing the thing with some more distance involved. It keeps landing, lit up, working fine. I tossed the thing around in a semi-mild manner at distances in an arced toss of ~10-15 ft at least a half dozen times. I kept picking it up and observing the body of the light, looking for damage, only very minor nicks hardly noticeable. I thought I saw one hefty mark, then used my fingernail to slide that piece of rock from out-between a pair of the raised "ribs" on the turbo-head (this is mostly granite out here on the surface FYI). So at this point, I have almost no noticeable damage, a few minor nicks here and there.... I decide I need to try a little harder. ....
I step out into the "driveway" where the gravel is packed hard from cars driving over it. I lob this thing straight up in the air at least 30+ft and let it come crashing down.....
lands with a solid thud, the body and the head meet the ground at the same time...
. the light goes out...Damage assessment time... what failed?
I took the light inside to figure out what actually happened. I figured the bulb filament popped. Nope...
*story interruption: configuration data incoming*
I'm running a pair of Emoli 18650s charged to ~4.0V each driving a 64250 for this test in an FM bi-pin to MN adapter.
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The bulb broke off at the pins. The FM adapter, the battery adapter, the batteries, and the flashlight, are all in perfect working order. I dropped a different bulb in the adapter and everything works fine.
Not bad. I can stop babying this thing now...
-Eric
[edit in]
Here's some picts:
How'd that cucumber get in here?
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).....:sleepy:..(wakes up looks at M6!)..
. :hairpull: ...:mecry:
